Dear Steve, There is a model of small incubator that fits through the large portal of a Belle Technology rigid glovebox - as an aside, that’s a good box for crystallisation and crystal manipulation since you can get the microscope-mounted side box with a dewar port for rapid and pretty efficient cryo-cooling. - I don’t work for Belle and don’t even know for sure if they are still in business..
Anyway…to your question...the incubator is constructed of grey plastic but holds temperature nicely - let me ring the guys back at Wake Forest Univ to see if they have it still around in the lab and I will send you the manufacturer and model number, or maybe they will see this here and post. Cheers -Conn Conn Mallett, PhD Director of Sales - SCX SBU Rigaku 9009 New Trails Drive The Woodlands, TX 77381 Office: +1 281 362 2300 ext. 126 Cell: +1 713 614 6891 FAX: +1 281 364 3628 Subscribe to Rigaku eNewsletters <http://www.rigaku.com/subscribe> . [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.rigaku.com<http://www.rigaku.com> On 11Mar, 2015, at 09:11, Martin Montgomery <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear Steve, You should not require an incubator if you have good, stable air con. We routinely grow crystals in plates stored at room temperature in wall mounted cabinets in our crystallisation lab. Another of the groups here have experience of growing crystals in an anaerobic box. Hopefully they will post more information. Regards MGM Martin G Montgomery ATP Synthase Group MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Wellcome Trust/MRC Building Cambridge Biomedical Campus Hills Road Cambridge Great Britain CB2 0XY www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk<http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/> On 11 Mar 2015, at 10:17, <Stephen Carr> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <Stephen Carr> wrote: Dear CCP4BBer's Apologies for the off-topic post, but the CCP4BB seems to be the best place to ask about crystallisation. I am looking to set up crystallisation in an anaerobic glove box and wondered how other people did this, specifically the crystallisation stage. My initial thoughts were to place a small crystallisation incubator inside the box, however the smallest I have come across so far (~27L) is still rather large. Has anyone come across smaller incubators? Alternatively are incubators even neccessary if the glove box is placed in a room with good air conditioning and stable temperature control? Any recommendations would be very helpful. Thanks in advance, Steve Carr Dr Stephen Carr Research Complex at Harwell (RCaH) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford Didcot Oxon OX11 0FA United Kingdom Email [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> tel 01235 567717 This email and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee or an authorized recipient of the addressee, please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to this email. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Research Complex at Harwell. There is no guarantee that this email or any attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be transmitted in or with the message. We use an electronic filing system. Please send electronic versions of documents, unless paper is specifically requested. This email may have a protective marking, for an explanation, please see: http://www.mrc.ac.uk/About/informationandstandards/documentmarking/index.htm.
